Definitions for genealogy

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genealogy ge·ne·al·o·gy

Spelling: [jee-nee-ol-uh-jee, -al-, jen-ee-]

IPA: /ˌdʒi niˈɒl ə dʒi, -ˈæl-, ˌdʒɛn i-/

Genealogy is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 240 anagrams from letters in genealogy (aeegglnoy).

Definitions for genealogy

noun

1. a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
2. the study of family ancestries and histories.
3. descent from an original form or progenitor; lineage; ancestry.
4. Biology. a group of individuals or species having a common ancestry:

Origin of genealogy

1250-1300; Middle English genealogie Middle French Late Latin geneālogia Greek geneālogía pedigree, equivalent to geneā́ race (see gene) + -logia

Examples for genealogy

Now this Salmon, according to the genealogy, was David's great-grandfather.

It was a rupture in our genealogy that came to serve as a metaphor for larger losses in black history.

Likely, it has to do with history of genealogy or mythology or all of the above.

Lauzanne knew what had come to him of genealogy, not in his mind so much as in his muscles.

In this manner, then, according to them, the genealogy of these gods is to be received and set forth.

But the narrative has more to do with geology than genealogy.

And the genealogy of this hypothesis is as high as that of the other is low.

In this genealogy, males are denoted by capitals, and females by small letters.

Well, according to the genealogy experts at, uh, myvouchercodes.co.uk who commissioned the pictures, it is.

Because the doctors do know who the person is; the doctors are conducting the genealogy.